Data Protection Over the summer shredding has been getting underway in earnest in the Forward in Faith office. The new General Data Protection Regulation prompted us to sort through our databases and all the paper files that contain personal data [...]
Stephen Wilson continues his essay on post-Enlightenment trends in biblical criticism Biblical criticism has ceased to be the threat to ‘settled faith’ it once may have been. It reached one climacteric in the quiet desperation of Albert Schweitzer’s The Quest [...]
Nigel Palmer relates a case in which the seal of the confessional came in for questioning On Tuesday 25 April 1865, just before four o’clock in the afternoon, a hansom cab drew up outside the Bow Street magistrates’ court in [...]
Peter CSWG remembers the life of a remarkable woman Sr Mary Michael CHC died in hospital in Nottingham during the early hours of the morning of the Feast of St Thomas, following four years of managing the side effects of [...]
8 September is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, but to many Anglicans the rich vein of thought and devotion about Mary’s place in the history of Anglican devotion is unknown. Anglican writers set her in the wider Christian scheme [...]
Ann George takes a friend on a particularly memorable Old City walk On the wall above my head as I write this article is hung a framed A4 card, signed by Archbishop Jäffo of the Syrian Orthodox Church, and displaying [...]
Tom Sutcliffe is disappointed with the latest play by Alan Bennett I first saw Alan Bennett in late 1960 when he was teaching history at Magdalen in a modest way, having got his Oxford First in that subject. He was [...]
Thurifer shares some thoughts Thomas Trotter has been the Birmingham City Organist since 1983, succeeding the legendary George Thalben-Ball. He gives lunchtime recitals in the Town Hall or Symphony Hall once a fortnight from October to July. The admission fee [...]
Art Aftermath Art in the wake of World War One Tate Britain until 24 September 2018 This show aims to explore the impact of the First World War on art in Britain, France and Germany in the period [...]
Christopher Smith reflects on the importance of body and soul in created humanity One of the reasons for the descent into bonkers-ness of the modern western world is, I suspect, to do with the difficulty that people have nowadays in [...]